Hailing from Cardiff, Red Telephone’s blend of melodic psych and darkwave has drawn comparisons to indie trailblazers MGMT, St. Vincent, and fellow Welsh cult favourites Super Furry Animals. Their second album ‘Delay The New Day’ was released in January 2025, garnering critical acclaim from the likes of Clash, Under The Radar, and God Is In The TV.

Exploring themes of paranoia, doubt, hope, and the trappings of group dynamics, ‘Delay the New Day’ was arranged by the band in solitude in Cornwall and recorded semi-live in under two weeks. Driven by the quintet's knack for multi-instrumental intricacies and drawing on cinematic influences, Red Telephone’s latest work is bold, genre-bending and defiantly optimistic, while staying true to the unique style they established in their 2023 debut.

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“Gritty, brilliantly dark and expansive. A deliciously dark, mesmerising and a dystopian-tinged sonic palette that could have been heard in Bowie’s Berlin in the late 1970’s. An impressive and masterful debut.” - Clash Music

“Very nicely layered. Has a bit of early 80s melodrama; a sort of Pet Shop Boys croon and a Krautrock halo.” – Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

“They have the potential to soundtrack a generation.” – Drowned in Sound

“Something brilliantly dark about this, with their synth psych noir with a pulse. Real potential to go big.” - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music

“With music as smart as their aesthetic, Cardiff’s Red Telephone are making neo-noir sounds that could have made it onto the ‘Drive’ soundtrack.” – Gigwise

Delay the New Day

Willing to Wait

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LOVE STORY

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You're from a house outside the city
Frosted windows bleeding colours from the neighbour's trash pile
Close to the airport but you've never been
Above the clouds it's always sunny
But you're happy where you are

They told me I could be anything
My mind is mixed and jumbled up like a shaken snow globe
All work and anxious never resting
I wanna be a movie star but you just want a walk-in wardrobe

Looking out on the city, where you grew up
It's become too much for you
Out the window the small town, where I grew up
And it's not enough for me

My dinner's waiting in a paper bag
It's too late again, I'm doing stupid shit that doesn't matter
You've got a family, they depend on ya
You buy a week of groceries without thinking and I think that's clever

Looking out on the city, where you grew up
It's become too much for you
Out the window the small town, where I grew up
And it's not enough for me

How do you find a life that's big enough
How do you find a life that's big and
I feel like I'm in the dark
You see light wherever you are

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